PLYMOUTH, Mich., April 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Stardock (www.stardock.com)
announced today that the highly anticipated real-time action strategy PC game,
Demigod, has gone gold. Demigod is set to hit store shelves in North America on
April 14 and will also be available for download on Stardock's digital
distribution platform Impulse (www.impulsedriven.com).
Pre-orders are now available on Impulse for both the standard edition ($39.95)
and the collector's edition ($49.95.)

Developed by renowned gaming studio Gas Powered Games, Demigod delivers an epic
game experience by combining elements of its acclaimed strategy game Supreme
Commander and its award-winning Dungeon Siege role-playing game series.

In Demigod, a god has fallen, leaving an opening in the Pantheon. Players take
control of a Demigod, waging war in spectacular arenas against others to ascend
to godhood.

Each battle takes place in an arena, where players earn gold and experience in
battle which can then be used to acquire new abilities, learn magical spells,
purchase better equipment and improve their faction's Citadel with the goal to
lay waste to the opposing faction.

Demigod makes use of Stardock's Impulse Reactor which provides intelligent
match-making, on-line tournaments, player skill ratings, and much more.

"We are extremely happy with how Demigod has turned out," said Stardock's CEO
and president Brad Wardell. "Demigod is the kind of game that we think players
will be playing years from now. It has a really fun single-player tournament,
and it has online features that let both casual and competitive players create
their own fun and unique gaming experiences."

"We're proud of what the Demigod team has accomplished," said Chris Taylor, CEO
of Gas Powered Games. "They've created an original world and setting, with
spectacular art direction and characters, and have matched it with unique
gameplay that seamlessly mixes elements from multiple genres."

While most PC games are released at $49.95 or more, Demigod has been priced at
only $39.95 due largely to Stardock and GPG's confidence that Demigod is a game
that will appeal to a very broad set of PC gamers.

You don't believe there's any difference between being "inspired" by something, and being a "rip off" of something?

Watch the developer diaries and interviews, they basically admit to ripping off the DotA concept. There's nothing wrong with imitation but I see his point about this being A) a GPG game B) no demo and C) $40.00.